The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 101

These laughed at him heartily, for they had laboured as hard as they could since daybreak, and had helped each other to fell trees and put them on the carts, so that all of these were now loaded except one.

Who acts: These, ells · What happens: laugh, labour, help, fall, put, load · To what, where: each, trees, ells, carts, all

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, ells), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	obl
5	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	2 laughed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laboured	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 laboured	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laboured	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laboured	aux
10	laboured	labour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 laughed	parataxis
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 laboured	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 could	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 could	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hard	advcl
16	since	since	ADP	_	17 daybreak	case
17	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 could	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 helped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 helped	cc
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 helped	aux
21	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 laboured	parataxis
22	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	21 helped	obj
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 each	fixed
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fell	mark
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 helped	advcl
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fell	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 fell	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 carts	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 carts	det
32	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 put	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 loaded	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	41 loaded	advmod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 loaded	mark
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 loaded	nsubj:pass
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 these	case
38	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	36 all	nmod
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 loaded	aux:pass
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 loaded	advmod
41	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 helped	conj
42	except	except	ADP	_	43 one	case
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 loaded	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	These				at Hans; heartily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	labour	past · perfect	ells = ell				hard property	vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	help	past · perfect		each				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary
4	fall	past		trees				vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient tree=Result
5	put	infinitive		ells = ell	the carts			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on cart=Destination
6	load	past · passive		all		now	except one	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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